Past issues
Every issue of The Scouting Report published so far, newest first.
Plan the build before you build it
My first build burned through my usage limits. Everything I've built since has been different, and the difference was all in the planning.
Don't let your judgment detrain
The better these tools get, the easier it is to stop checking them. Here's where I draw the line.
The AI tool that only answers from what you give it
Build a research library on one topic, and every answer points back to the exact page it came from.
Switching AI tools without starting over
How to move what you have built from one tool to another, in about ten minutes.
The setting you never actually chose
The privacy setting that decides whether your conversations train future models, why it matters more once athlete information is involved, and the two-minute fix.
The words nobody explained to you
The AI vocabulary worth knowing, split into the terms that change what you get back and the ones that quietly mislead you. Half of them don't mean what you'd assume.
It's wrong in patterns
AI doesn't make random mistakes. It makes the same four, and once you know them you can stop double-checking everything and start looking twice at what actually deserves it.
You don't have to be at a desk to use it
Why talking and photographing beat typing for catching ideas away from your desk, and how voice and camera input turn the drive home or a whiteboard photo into something usable.
The daily brief you'll actually keep reading
Why most scheduled AI tasks turn into noise by week two, and the six things that separate a daily brief you'll actually keep reading from one you'll stop opening.
Nobody can read your spreadsheet
Why the sheet that holds your whole program is the wrong thing to hand your staff, and how to pull a real presentation out of it without losing an afternoon.
You can't ask a note a follow-up question
Why your podcast notes never turn into anything, and the shift that turns AI into a notebook you can actually talk back to.
The spreadsheet you keep rebuilding
Why every new tech export feels like starting over from scratch, and the four things to describe so AI builds the bridge once instead of you rebuilding it by hand.
Stop starting every AI conversation from zero
Why treating an AI Project like a folder is the miss, and the three-move setup that lets every new chat open already knowing your program.
Why AI gives you generic answers (and how to fix it in 2 minutes)
The needs-analysis test that explains why AI feels generic, and the two-minute Program Card that fixes it for the rest of the season.